Ocean's 3 Bring Two Decades of Classics to Aberdeen Arts Centre
The trio who’ve played everywhere from lorries to cruise ships finally get an orchestra.
Ocean’s 3 have spent 20 years playing crooner classics. Hundreds of venues, tens of thousands of people, all sorts of stages and crowds. Dan, Ryan and Steve are working performers in the truest sense: the trio who say yes to the gig, no matter the venue.
That run-anywhere approach tells you what’s important about longevity in live music. You don’t last two decades by being precious about the venue or waiting for the perfect opportunity. You show up, you perform, you build an audience one gig at a time. Sometimes that’s a major concert hall, sometimes it’s a pub on a Tuesday night.
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From musical theatre to cruise ships
By day, they’re a drama teacher at an Aberdeen secondary school, a professional role player who trains doctors and offshore workers, and a musical theatre writer whose show recently premiered to packed houses. By night, they’re crooners working through standards by Sinatra, Dean Martin and Michael Bublé. It’s this double life that makes keeping a trio going for 20 years possible: you need something else to pay the bills, but you keep performing because that’s what you do.
The three met through musical theatre in Aberdeen and played their first show together in 2005. Two decades later, they’re going strong. On 1st November, they’re doing something bigger than usual: a concert with Aberdeen Jazz Orchestra at Aberdeen Arts Centre, where they used to perform in those musical theatre shows before Ocean’s 3 existed.
There’s an abvious logic to bringing the anniversary back to where it started. The venue has history for them, and pairing with a full jazz orchestra suits the material in a way a standard three-piece setup doesn’t. Crooner classics benefit from that bigger sound, the arrangements that give standards room to breathe.
Stories from two decades on the road
The evening will feature guests from across those 20 years. When you’ve been performing together that long, you accumulate stories and connections, the people who were there for the weird gigs and the good ones. Guests will join them on stage, bringing their own piece of that history into the room.
Ocean’s 3 play with Aberdeen Jazz Orchestra at Aberdeen Arts Centre on Saturday, 1st November. More information and tickets are available at Aberdeen Arts Centre.
